When you order in a Cantonese restaurant, if you are speaking to the waiters in Chinese, the first thing they will ask is what type of tea you would like – reeling off a huge list so quickly that you most probably won’t understand, even if you are Chinese yourself! After this, they will do the same for the types of fresh green vegetables that they have in that day, and once you have picked, they will ask you, ‘With garlic, or oyster sauce?’ If they ever have pea shoots in, try them with garlic – they are best eaten this way and are one of my favourite vegetables.